[Digikam-users] Importing captions + comments from Web-Gallery

[Felix]

Felix Eckhofer wrote:

>Hi everyone.
>
>Is there any way to import pictures (more importantly descriptions and 
>comments) from a gallery on the web?
>
>While I was travelling I used to upload my pictures using 
>http://gallery.sf.net and now I'm looking for some way to get those 
>pictures into my favourite KDE photo management software.
>
>If there is no such solution yet - is a KIPI plugin the right way to 
>cope with something like this?
>
>
>regards,
>felix
>
Gallery 1 has the picture files and the derivatives (resized, 
thumbnails) in the same directory; so it would be awkward to identify 
which files you *really* want to import.

Gallery2 (which is almost in production and quality-wise is better than 
most production software that I've seen... but then again - I am biased 
;-) ) has the directory structure that corresponds to the albums, so the 
import process would be more straightforward. There is also a good set 
of APIs (in PHP) that would allow you to get the metadata from the 
database. If PHP is not a choice - there is always a way to get metadata 
straight from the database.

I was thinking about the opposite task - publish the albums from digikam 
straight to your Gallery site. I don't know much about digikam 
internals, but if you need any help with Gallery - I'd be happy to help!

Felix (different from original poster :-D )